Android in December 2013: KitKat, Jelly Bean on the rise

12 January, 2014
Jelly Bean now has a 59.1% market share, while the newest KitKat release powers 1.4% of the droids.

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Anonymous, 12 Jan 2014Android is very fragmented in both graphics chips and Andro... moreThat's because play store has apps. Simply

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    • 12 Jan 2014

    Anonymous, 12 Jan 2014You're talking nonsense, those systems run on custom operat... more(Free/MS)DOS (Disk Operating System) etc are not custom operating systems. They are (or were) the standard before Windows and Linux GUI's became commonplace, which had custom/proprietary software (designed for specific tasks) running on top of it. But rarely would there be a need to have an entire operating system designed for a specific task/use.

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      • PEH
      • 12 Jan 2014

      I wish manufacturers would stop selling phones on Gingerbread. Seriously, some crappy manufacturers are still doing it it. I cringe

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        • 12 Jan 2014

        Where's my Note 3 KitKat Samsung?

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          • 12 Jan 2014

          YMG GOONIE KH, 12 Jan 2014Samsung is the king of android.fixed: Samsung is the king of lag.

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            • Anonymous
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            • 12 Jan 2014

            A.M.H, 12 Jan 2014Exactly in a Power plant a 800MW system is being controlled... moreYou're talking nonsense, those systems run on custom operating systems and a lot of them use RISC processors - of course there are a lot of x86 processors as well.

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              • 12 Jan 2014

              Anonymous, 12 Jan 2014"Android is very fragmented in both graphics chips and... moreExactly in a Power plant a 800MW system is being controlled by a computer with a Pentium 2 and its still running Windows 95 but it gets the job done. Can you open email with gingerbread yes, can you use facebook yes, If you are thinking of playing games which are not supported on earlier versions probably your hardware wont be able to run the game either

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                • Anonymous
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                • 12 Jan 2014

                "Android is very fragmented in both graphics chips and Android version" ??

                that mean even Windows is fragmented... :) :/
                win 95, win98, win 32000 are all being used, mainly because the hardware is very old, and the system is **only** being used for a VERY simple use, like a print server, or POS unit... it does not crash or get attacked, due to the age of the whole thing.. Why 'upgrade to the latest' when is has been working without problems for 10 years??

                Android phones are the same - people want very cheap phones, that are not powerful enough to run the latest OS - they just want ** a phone ** :)

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                  • 12 Jan 2014

                  It shows the best versions were
                  1.Gingerbread
                  2.Jelly Beans

                  Fragmentation can be issue for devs but not for users

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                    • Anonymous
                    • kg3
                    • 12 Jan 2014

                    Android is very fragmented in both graphics chips and Android version. That's why you see so many comments about force closes and freezes in Google Play store.

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                      • 12 Jan 2014

                      Samsung is the king of android.

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